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I see multiple active releases.<a class="headerlink" href="#which-version-should-i-use-i-see-multiple-active-releases" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2> 38<p>Please see <a class="reference internal" href="installing.html#release-lines"><span class="std std-ref">the installation docs</span></a> which have an explicit 39section about this topic.</p> 40</section> 41<section id="paramiko-doesn-t-work-with-my-cisco-windows-or-other-non-unix-system"> 42<h2>Paramiko doesnât work with my Cisco, Windows or other non-Unix system!<a class="headerlink" href="#paramiko-doesn-t-work-with-my-cisco-windows-or-other-non-unix-system" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2> 43<p>In an ideal world, the developers would love to support every possible target 44system. Unfortunately, volunteer development time and access to non-mainstream 45platforms are limited, meaning that we can only fully support standard OpenSSH 46implementations such as those found on the average Linux distribution (as well 47as on Mac OS X and *BSD.)</p> 48<p>Because of this, <strong>we typically close bug reports for nonstandard SSH 49implementations or host systems</strong>.</p> 50<p>However, <strong>closed does not imply locked</strong> - affected users can still post 51comments on such tickets - and <strong>we will always consider actual patch 52submissions for these issues</strong>, provided they can get +1s from similarly 53affected users and are proven to not break existing functionality.</p> 54</section> 55<section id="i-m-having-strange-issues-with-my-code-hanging-at-shutdown"> 56<h2>Iâm having strange issues with my code hanging at shutdown!<a class="headerlink" href="#i-m-having-strange-issues-with-my-code-hanging-at-shutdown" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2> 57<p>Make sure you explicitly <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.close()</span></code> your connection objects (usually 58<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SSHClient</span></code>) if youâre having any sort of hang/freeze at shutdown time!</p> 59<p>Doing so isnât strictly necessary 100% of the time, but it is almost always the 60right solution if you run into the various corner cases that cause race 61conditions, etc.</p> 62</section> 63</section> 64 65 66 </div> 67 68 </div> 69 </div> 70 <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> 71 <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> 72<h1 class="logo"><a href="index.html">Paramiko</a></h1> 73 74 75 76<p class="blurb">A Python implementation of SSHv2.</p> 77 78 79 80 81<p> 82<iframe src="https://ghbtns.com/github-btn.html?user=paramiko&repo=paramiko&type=watch&count=true&size=large&v=2" 83 allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="0" width="200px" height="35px"></iframe> 84</p> 85 86 87 88 89 90<h3>Navigation</h3> 91<ul class="current"> 92<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="changelog.html">Changelog</a></li> 93<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">FAQs</a><ul> 94<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#which-version-should-i-use-i-see-multiple-active-releases">Which version should I use? 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